to the man by whom the name of God is blasphemed;”* for, though in all things I am unskilled, yet I have endeavoured to be on my guard, even with Christian brethren and virgins of Christ, and religious women, who, of their own accord, used to bestow gifts upon me, and to place their ornamentsc on the altar;* but I returned them again to them, and they were offended at me for doing this. But I was animated by the hope of immortality, to guard myself cautiously in all things, so that they should not